Image: Image reproduction rights managed by Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio; institutional source link provided
View source →Pablo Picasso, 1902
Medium
black chalk on brown wove paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 26 x 20 cm (10 1/4 x 7 7/8 in.)
Style
Blue Period figuration
Decade
1900s
The official Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio record identifies The Donkey Driver as a Pablo Picasso artwork, dated 1902, in black chalk on brown wove paper. Created during Pablo Picasso's Blue Period, a time when the artist focused on disenfranchised members of society, this drawing depicts a man and woman in what apperas to be Catalan costume. The subject may relate to Picasso's Spanish heritage or his study in Paris of drawings by the elder artist Puvis de Chavannes, who likewise focused on agrarian life. Picasso drew and reworked his composition in black chalk, leaving changes to the image fully evident as he worked.
The Donkey Driver is grouped here under Blue Period for gallery navigation based on the date published by Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio. This period label is interpretive context, not a replacement for the cited primary object record. The holding collection is documented by the cited institutional source.
2026 Estimated Value
Public collection / market value not asserted
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Last Known Sale
No public auction record — held in permanent museum collection
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